A blog devoted to the actors and public policy issues involved in the 1998 District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, an employment discrimination case.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Can the FBI Help with a Worker's Compensation Claim?

I
am planning to file a worker's compensation claim growing out of the
injuries I sustained during my employment at the law firm of Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld. I am writing to inquire whether the FBI can
assist me in pursuing my claim. The claim is explained more fully in
the email message below.

I understand this is a civil matter, but
the U.S. Marshals Service
insinuated itself in this matter in the year 2010 and acted on
suspicions or conclusions that are material to my worker's compensation
claim (see paragraph 5, below).

Further, my former employer's
actions in May 1992 in filing statements about me with a state human
rights agency that were defamatory on their face -- alleging that I
suffered from severe mental illness that rendered me unemployable and
potentially violent (i.e., a direct threat in the workplace) based on
the opinion of a psychiatrist who had not examined me personally,
thereby violating the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule
-- may constitute a felony under 18 USC 241, Conspiracy Against Rights. I have been denied the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act because I am considered a "direct threat
in the workplace," an allegation made by Akin Gump and affirmed as
genuine and credible by the D.C. Department of Human Rights. Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights,
D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998). The U.S. Supreme Court has
held private citizens to be liable as state
actors when they conspire with government officials to deprive persons
of their rights. Thus, my former employer, Akin Gump may have committed
a "color of law violation," a felony that falls within the
investigative jurisdiction of the FBI.

Thank you.

Gary Freedman

Washington, DC

______________________

Dennis M. Race, Esq.

Senior Counsel

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

1333 New Hampshire Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20036

Telephone: 202 887 4028

RE: Intent to File Worker's Compensation Claim

Dear Mr. Race:

This
will advise the law law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
(Akin Gump) that I plan to file a claim for Worker's Compensation from
the Department of Employment Services of the Government of the District
of Columbia, and I state the following reasons for the claim:

2.
Neither Akin Gump nor the D.C. Office of Corporation Counsel denied
that I was a victim of workplace mobbing. The issue of whether I was a
victim of workplace mobbing was never litigated; there is no
anti-mobbing statute in the District of Columbia. No administrative
agency or court has ever determined that I was not a victim of workplace
mobbing.

Mr. Freedman,
At the McClendon Center we take allegations of Medicare/Medicaid fraud and abuse very seriously.
Actual fraud would have been committed if Nurse Carroll had billed for services that she didn't provide. I have no reason to believe that she did not see you
on the days for which she billed, so I believe no fraud was committed.
Abuse can encompass a range of issues. It can vary from claiming too much (or too little) time with the patient, or it can be committed if you did not have a
valid treating diagnosis. Your file contains the following diagnoses: Delusional Disorder (297.1), Major Depression Recurrent Severe Without Psychotic
Features (296.33), Alcohol Dependence in Sustained Remission (303.90), and PTSD (309.81), and Schizoid Personality Disorder (301.20). These diagnoses were made
by Aimee Calderone-Burgess, who is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social worker, and therefore qualified to diagnose mental health conditions in the
District of Columbia. As you have valid DSM diagnoses and are being appropriately treated by an Advance Practice Registered Nurse, I believe your
allegations of Medicare/Medicaid fraud are unfounded.
However, it is your prerogative to contact an appropriate agency such as the Office of Health Care Ombudsman to register your concerns. You have my
assurance that we will cooperate fully in any investigation conducted by any oversight agency at which you register a complaint.
Dennis Hobb

Victims
of workplace mobbing frequently suffer from: adjustment disorders,
somatic symptoms (e.g., headaches or irritable bowel
syndrome),psychological trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and major depresssion). In mobbing targets with PTSD, Heinz Leymann notes that the mental effects
were fully comparable with PTSD from war or prison camp experiences.
Some patients may develop alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders.
Family relationships routinely suffer. Some targets may even develop
brief psychotic episodes, generally with paranoid symptoms. Leymann
estimated that 15% of suicides in Sweden could be directly attributed to
workplace mobbing. Hillard J.R., Workplace mobbing: Are they really out to get your patient?Current Psychiatry 8(4): 45-51, April 2009.

Akin
Gump admits that I suffered from paranoid symptoms during my employment
at the firm. The D.C. Worker's Compensation program administers the
special/second injury fund, which provides
benefits in instances where an injury combines with a pre-existing
disability to cause a substantially
greater disability.

5.
On January 15, 2010 I was interviewed by Deputy Marshal xxxxx of the U.S. Marshals Service (U.S. Department of Justice) as
part of a threat investigation. Deputy Marshal xxxxx was concerned
about my obsessive preoccupation with my employment experience at Akin
Gump and the intense anger expressed in my writings published on the
Internet about that employment experience. Anger, obsessive
preoccupation with past trauma, and the potential for violent acting out
are symptoms of PTSD. Thus, the U.S.
Department of Justice has affirmed as genuine the symptoms diagnosed by
the McClendon Center as constituting PTSD, a recognized consequence of
workplace mobbing.

There is no evidence that I suffered from Major Depression or PTSD prior to September 1992,
that is before I learned in late December 1992 that Akin Gump had used
the legal processes of a state agency (in May 1992) to defame, humiliate
and embarrass me, which resulted in the infliction of extreme emotional
distress. Experts in workplace mobbing recognize that a frequently
encountered aspect of the phenomenon is that the employer himself
ultimately colludes with coworkers in mobbing behavior which typically
features behaviors intended to defame, humiliate and embarrass the
mobbing victim. Thus, an expert in mobbing could very well conclude
that Akin Gump's act of filing false and defamatory written statements
about me in May 1992 (seven months after my employment ended on October
29,
1991) with a state agency was, in
fact, an integral part of the mobbing.

7. Under the D.C. Worker's Compensation program a claimant is required to report job-related injury or illness in writing
to the Office of
Workers’ Compensation within 30 days of occurrence or awareness.
I became aware that I suffered from the recognized consequences of
workplace mobbing experienced at Akin Gump (1988-1991) on September 17,
2013 by way of the above email message (see paragraph 3, above) sent to
me by Dennis Hobb, Program Manager of the McClendon Center. Thus, I have until October 17, 2013 to file a timely claim
under the D.C. Worker's Compensation program for the injuries I suffered
at Akin Gump, namely, the specific complex of psychiatric symptoms or
disorders typically caused by workplace mobbing: Major Depression, PTSD,
Alcohol Dependence (in remission), and Paranoid symptoms.

The following is an email message I sent to the Washington Field Office of the FBI. Gertrude R. Ticho, MD (deceased) is the psychiatrist referenced in the following email who opined in 1991 to Dennis M. Race, Esq. and Malcolm Lassman, Esq., senior managers of my former employer, Akin Gump, that I was potentially violent without ever having examined me personally, in violation of the APA's rules of professional ethics. Dr. Ticho's professional psychiatric opinion was affirmed as genuine and credible by the D.C. Department of Human Rights in 1993. Gertrude R. Ticho, MD was a GW Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. Thus, GW may be indirectly involved in the felony, Conspiracy Against Rights, 18 USC 241.

The argument can be made that the GW MFA ratified the unethical or unlawful actions of its clinical professors of psychiatry. See the link below: